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Chapter 75 Sacrifice

If there was a Han man on the other side, he would definitely think that the news delivered by Shang Kexi was almost incredible or that Liu Yongxi was too ridiculous, but King Ajige thought this was a very normal operation.

After all, such marriages are common in the history of the Aisin Gioro family. Most of the marriages between Nurhaci and Huang Taiji are alliances based on interests, so it is not surprising that Liu Yongxina Gao is a concubine.

Ajige believes that the key is that Liu Yongxi asked Gao to take charge of the military affairs of the five provinces of Jingzhou: "According to this, Jingzhou will definitely be besieged by bandits now? Huguang is going to be troubled again!"

Originally, Ajige thought that Tengjiao was unable to integrate hundreds of thousands of thieves. No one expected that Liu Yongxi would make such a great sacrifice to marry Gao. However, in this way, the few thousand Qing troops guarding Jingzhou were the first to be affected.

Wu Sangui immediately said: "Previously, a thief, a tiger and Gao Yigong, led the Ninth Camp to besiege Jingzhou and finally returned without success, but this time the situation may be different!"

Although King Ajige of the British King has always thought of returning to the army as soon as possible and did not use much effort to manage Huguang, he is more keen than anyone else in the issue of Gao and the remnants of the Dashun Army: "If the thieves take Jingzhou, it will be a huge trouble. The thieves are just thieves and are not troubles at all, but if they take Jingzhou, they will become thieves, and they will also receive the behind-the-scenes support of the thieves in Jinhua!"

Li Zicheng's troops did not have a stable base. Although they were armed with hundreds of thousands of armor, they only knew how to roam all the way. This was also because Ajige had only 80,000 troops but could chase the 200,000 to 300,000 Dashun Army. However, if the Dashun Army was combined with the Jinhua thieves, Jingzhou would probably become the nest of the thieves. It would probably take several times or even dozens of times the effort to retake it back.

The thief is not scary, what is really scary is that the thief will combine with the Jinhua thief!

Wu Sangui also pointed out this: "If there is any mistake in Jingzhou, there may be danger in Wuchang!"

Ajige frowned and said, "Why is this Queen Gao also a beauty? How could she be so confused that she can't figure it out and join forces with Liu Yongxi and other Jinhua thieves to harm the world!"

He forgot that just a few months ago, he was still chasing Empress Gao and the remnants of the Dashun Army to kill him. Wu Sangui immediately asked Ajige the most concerned question: "King Ying, since Wuchang is in danger, should we send troops back to Wuchang as soon as possible? Now 100,000 troops are blocking in front of Tianmen Mountain!"

Ajige sighed: "Justice King Yu and King Su wrote another letter, saying that the Jinhua thieves used red cannons in Suzhou. Although Li Lutai could still withstand it, several prefectures and counties had fallen into the Jinhua thief. Boluo is really harmful to people!"

He has always been very resentful of Boluo who threw more than 30 red-clothed cannons to the Ming army of Yue, but Shang Kexi said: "King of England, even if you don't send troops back to Wuchang, you must consider the upstream. On the one hand, I came here to inform the movements of the Gao family and the bandits, and on the other hand, I asked for help from the King of England!"

Ajige didn't expect that Shang Kexi was here to invite soldiers: "Wang Sunfan and Jin Sheng aren't that scary, right?"

Shang Kexi smiled bitterly: "It's fine to have a golden sound, but Huizhou thieves rely on Zhejiang are not afraid of fashion and shortness, but Wang Sunfan has thousands of elite troops in Yueming under his command, which is really difficult to deal with!"

Ajige was most afraid of hearing the four words "Yueming Elite". Although he gradually gained the upper hand in the past two days, Xing Shengping on the opposite side always turned into a birth force, forcing him to send the most elite Eight Banners Army to the front line to charge. However, although the Eight Banners Army was to calm the scene, the number of casualties was so large that Ajige and all Manchu nobles could not accept it.

After all, for the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners soldiers were the real foundation of the country. Too much loss would shake the foundation of the country. However, if the Eight Banners Army was not used, the scene could not be suppressed. After all, except for the Eight Banners Army, ordinary Han army and the Mongolian soldiers of the foreign vassals were not willing to launch a strong attack against the guns and bullets of the Yue Ming army.

Now that he heard that thousands of elite troops of the Ming Dynasty emerged from Jiangxi, Ajige felt that the situation was difficult to deal with: "It seems that he had to go back to Huguang, but in this way, King Yu and King Su would be dangerous. If something happened to them, Huguang might not be able to defend it!"

Wu Sangui quickly advised: "King Ying, if our army of more than 100,000 is blocked by the food route, then Huguang will have no way to defend it!"

Although Ajige's troops suffered a lot of losses in the defense line of Liangshan, the east and west, but for a hundred thousand troops, it was still able to bear it. But if there was a problem with the food supply in the rear, it would not only be a problem of losing troops and losing generals. However, Ajige was still a little hesitant: "As long as we persist, our army can surpass Tianmen Mountain and meet King Yu, and King Su will meet!"

Wu Sangui said earnestly: "Even if we can meet with King Yu and King Su, can we still give up Huguang and Jiangxi to help King Yu. King Su take down the entire Jiangnan? I'm afraid that the Gao family and the Dashun thieves will have already attacked the head of Wuchang by then, and I heard that the pseudo-King Yue and the tens of thousands of Jinhua thieves led by him have been in Liyang without moving their troops!"

This was a bit heartbroken, and Ajige was still hesitant: "The reason why Liu Yongxi held troops in Liyang was because King Yu and King Su were there. If we return to the army, the situation in Jiangnan would be unimaginable. Moreover, the situation is still good now, and our army still controls most of Jiangxi!"

Shang Kexi said, "King Ying, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of one. Even if we take this Tianmen Mountain, it will probably take another ten days and half a month. However, the Jinhua thieves will never wait for death. I heard that King Yu, the reason why King Su had Liyang and Yixing was defeated was simply because Wu Shengzhao's troops surrendered the thief, and Wu Shengzhao had only two thousand people!"

When talking about Wu Shengzhao's righteousness in front of the formation, Wu Sangui was also heartbroken: "Yes, Wu Shengzhao only has two thousand people, but now Jinhua thieves can draw out thousands of elite troops at any time!"

Ajige shook his head and said, "For another three days, I will give the court an explanation to King Yu and King Su, and inform the brothers below that they must be at the cost of casualties in these three days. I don't believe it. I have conquered so many famous cities in Tianmen, but I can't even get a Tianmen Mountain!"

Although there are many soldiers in Nanjing now, the Qing Dynasty's hair shaving order is like a false text here. Even if someone is wearing Han clothes and wearing Han clothes, the Eight Banners Army will now ignore it. At most, you can go away quickly.

Now the envoys of the King of Tang have even been in semi-public activities in Nanjing. In addition, there are many small groups under various banners, either claiming to have received the edict from Empress Zhang or claiming to be the representative of a sage king of the Ming Dynasty. However, few people know that the intelligence system of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing has been fully cooperating with the actions of Ruan Lizhen and Liu Rushi.

However, during this period, Liu Rushi and Ruan Lizhen were both extremely low-key. The reason was naturally that the situation changed after the uprising in front of Wu Shengzhao. On the surface, the Qing army ignored the anti-Qing actions in the city, but in fact, they adopted the strategy of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside and killed many people. They were the key figures in instigating Wu Shengzhao, so they naturally had to be extra low-key.

Moreover, Liu Yongxi was not willing to have any accidents for them, so he wrote a letter to ask them to try to keep a low profile and temporarily stop the action. Now that the situation is good, everything can be borne by him, Liu Yongxi. However, they also heard an unexpected news: "Hodongjun, have you also heard such news? Xiaoxi's younger brother wants to take the pseudo-Dashun Empress Gao as his concubine?"

Liu Rushi nodded: "There is indeed something. It is said that the reason why His Highness of Yue did this was to incorporate hundreds of thousands of Dashun Army remnants in Huguang!"

Ruan Lizhen said with a grievance: "Brother Xiaoxi is so pitiful. He does this for the sake of the country. I know that it must be these thieves who use this reason to threaten Xiaoxi's younger brother, but what can I do for the sake of the country? It's so pitiful!"

Ruan Lizhen's face was full of pity. Liu Rushi had originally found a bunch of excuses to convince her good sisters, but after Ruan Lizhen said this, she felt that His Majesty King Yue was indeed a little pitiful, but the state affairs were of great importance to His Majesty King Yue really had no choice.

Although many people around her looked down on these thieves and even thought that Liu Yongxina Gao's wife was a great defeat in his life, especially the representatives of the Tang Dynasty and several other vassal kings all said that Liu Yongxi was "shameless" and "there were such shameless people in the world", but now she looked at the problem from Liu Yongxi's perspective and felt more and more distressed about His Royal Highness Yue.

The two women were thinking about the same man upstairs but were relatively speechless. After a while, Liu Rushi said: "His Royal Highness of Yue has indeed sacrificed a lot for the cause of Zhongxing. Although he asked us to hold our troops temporarily, I think there are some things that we are a daughter but are obliged to do!

Ruan Lizhen also knew that the Qing army has always adopted the strategy of loose outside and tight inside near Nanjing, and even started killing from time to time, but when she thought of her childhood sweetheart, she was not afraid: "Hedongjun, what you want to say is exactly what I want to do. Now there is only one problem, that is, how can we do things most effectively!"

Liu Rushi said with a smile: "Now many people are planning how to get a second Wu Shengzhao, but I think it is not easy to accomplish with the precedent of Wu Shengzhao, so I think it can be done the opposite!"

The uprising in front of Wu Shengzhao not only allowed Duoduo and Haoge's painstaking plan to make all the flowing water, but the subsequent impact was also extremely far-reaching. In the past, the main force of the Yi army was the new affiliated army after pacifying Jiangnan. Now, let alone the new affiliated army, even many of the "old army" who entered the pass and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the first year of Shunzhi were strictly controlled and used by the Qing army.
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